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They hate IE SO much, they even made the drop a new major release.

This is what I call commitment.




Since people see jQuery as a solution for cross-browser issues, dropping some browser support is the biggest change imaginable.


Deprecating old-IE is the solution for cross-browser issues.


But isn't that exactly the thing about major releases? That compatibility may be broken. See also http://semver.org/


So Microsoft hate WinXP so much they made dropping support in MSIE a new major release?




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